Last week, FOX News demanded John McCain stop using debate footage in a new ad. Rudy Giuliani's and Mitt Romney's website was covered in FOX News paraphernalia, then FNC finally applied their demand equally. Romney's campaign says to hell with it, they are going to use it anyway.

Rudy Giuliani

• Giuliani claims he doesn't remember being briefed on Bernie Kerik's ties to the mob, but now there's concrete evidence that it actually took place. Giuliani's connection to Kerik would destroy a political career under normal circumstances but IOKIYAR. September 11 changed everything... except Bernie Kerik's criminal record.
• Senator Kit Bond (R-Missouri) endorsed Giuliani but needs to read the Constitution: presidents serve eight years, Kit, not ten.
• Giuliani lies about healthcare statistics in ads (and continuing to use them) and lies about attacking Senator Joe Biden's (D-Delaware) foreign policy experience... the chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee... no experience... said by a mayor. Oh, and there's audio of Giuliani attacking Biden. And despite attacking "gummint healthcare," Giuliani may have received his prostate cancer screening... through the government.
• Giuliani faces an investigation into the radios used on September 11 by the New York City Council.
• It seems Giuliani has a part-time job at his old firm and then there's this:

  Several of the firm's employees do volunteer work for his campaign. And Giuliani did not decide until mid-June, six months after he entered the race, to bill his campaign for the cost of the security detail traveling with him on campaign trips; before then, the firm paid the expense [...]

  Federal election laws prohibit Giuliani's firm from absorbing costs or providing services that legally should be covered by political donations, campaign experts said.

  "This is a lawyer's nightmare," said Republican political consultant Scott Reed, who ran the 1996 presidential bid of then-Sen. Robert J. Dole (R-Kan.) but is not aligned with a presidential campaign in this race. "I don't think the vulnerability is with voters on the level of his commitment to the race. The concern is really about FEC violations and whether anything this corporation does to help him essentially is making a contribution to run for president in the form of staff time, materials, travel billing or security."

• David Dayen has taken several looks at the media and their continuing failure.

Mitt Romney

• Yawn. Romney flip-flops again. This one is on immigration.

Fred Thompson

• FDT: The U.N. will take your guns away.

John McCain

• Speaking about torture, McCain says his military service informs his views, and because, you know, he was tortured by the North Vietnamese. Conversely, McCain points to the lack of military service among his top opponents, and their playing footsie with 'enhanced interrogation techniques.'

Ron Paul

• Paul raked in over $5 million last quarter and this is what he spent it on.

  I wrote that day:

  If Mitt Romney wasn't such a flip-flopper and devoid of any real political principle, I would have said this was the worst acting in a presidential ad all season.

Duncan Hunter

• When U.S. diplomats refuse to go to Iraq, Duncan Hunter suggested in a press release:

  Go to Walter Reed and Bethesda for New State Dept. Personnel

  ... State Department personnel who refuse deployment to Baghdad be replaced with wounded veterans at Walter Reed and Bethesda hospitals.